Why did you come here? Because we want to buy red beans. in Tetun
Tansá mak imi mai iha ne'e? Tanba ami hakarak sosa koto.
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This Tetun (Tetum) translation comes from a curated 2,500-phrase parallel corpus drawn from the official tetun.org dictionary by Catharina Williams-van Klinken. Tetun is one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste alongside Portuguese.
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Related phrases
- A can of red beans is fifty cents.Koto lata ida sentavus limanulu.
- We rent a house because we don’t have money to buy one.Ami aluga uma tanba la iha osan atu sosa.
- I want to buy a bicycle to participate in the Tour de Timor.Ha'u hakarak sosa bisikleta ida hodi tuir kompetisaun Tour dé Timor.
- When we plant crops here they thrive, because the soil is fertile.Bainhira ita kuda ai-horis iha ne'e buras loos tanba rai bokur.
- To receive (your) money, come in one at a time; you can’t come in together.Atu simu osan, tama ida-ida; la bele tama hamutuk.
- The kiosk owner is not here. When she/he returns we can go and buy shampoo.Kios na'in la iha. Nia mai mak ita bá hola xampó.